Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: > You or I might want to see >competition because it does indeed engender technological advances and have >other advantages for consumers, but for the holder of the monopoly, nothing >beats a monopoly. ;-) Wrong. A big company needs competition to stay healthy. Without competition a big company gets fat, lazy and inefficient; sooner or later some other form of competition will appear and the (former) monopolist will have to either re-invent itself at great cost or sink. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com